James M. Barrie Quotes

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

We are here to love, not to judge. I'd been blaming and raging. I certainly wasn't loving my daughter that afternoon as God loves me. God's love doesn't insist on perfection or even good common sense. Why then should I demand more of those I love? With this tiny change in perspective I began to see the need for correction wasn't in my daughter, but in me.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I'm not good at watching myself.

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.